All of England should become a bit Scottish

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If Yorkshire, the Midlands and the South West want to be free of London’s domination they should emulate Holyrood

You’ll forgive me, I hope, if I’ve harped on about this before, but my starting point on Scotland’s independence referendum is that it shouldn’t be happening at all. And this is not, of course, because I feel the good people of Scotland (and indeed the less good ones, some of whom may now feel moved to write in) don’t deserve a say on their membership of the United Kingdom. Rather, it’s because, glaringly, they already have one. They happen every five years. And they are called “general elections”.

Last time around, the proportion of the Scottish electorate that opted to